RFRSH announces year-ending BLAST Pro Series Lisbon

RFRSH Entertainment announced Wednesday that its final tournament of the year will be the $250,000 BLAST Pro Series Lisbon, taking place from Dec. 14-15.

The tournament will be broadcast online and flow tv, with finals being held at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.

The six-team event will include Astralis, Ninjas in Pyjamas, FaZe Clan, Cloud9 and MIBR, with the final team still to be announced.

Lisbon will be the fourth event of 2018 in the series. Top-ranked Astralis won the most recent BLAST Pro Series event in Istanbul in September, while BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen will begin Friday.

"Just like the previous events and the upcoming tournament in Copenhagen, we expect all tickets to be sold before the event day," BLAST Pro Series executive producer Jordi Roig said in a statement, per the Esports Observer. "I really believe the Portuguese fans to create an electric atmosphere in Altice Arena."

RFRSH also announced three tournaments for the spring that will take place in three new cities for the series: Sao Paulo in March, Miami in April and Madrid in May. The company expects to hold nine events overall in 2019.